NAIL Research Seminar #16

29. Januar 2024, von Internetredaktion

Professor Christoph Kumpan and Professor Georg Ringe would like to invite you to the NAIL Research Seminar event on Monday, 29 January 2024, starting at 18h00 (CET), with Professor Ignacio Cofone (McGill University), who will give a presentation titled "The Privacy Fallacy: Harm and Power in the Information Economy".

The lecture will be followed by a discussion on the topic. The event will be held in English and will take place in person in Room A125, Law Faculty Building, Universität Hamburg (Rothenbaumchaussee 33). You can also participate online by registering your participation via mail( nail"AT"ile-hamburg.de).

Book presentation: "The Privacy Fallacy: Harm and Power in the Information Economy" (Cambridge University Press, 2023)

Our privacy is besieged by tech companies. Companies can do this because our laws are built on outdated ideas that trap lawmakers, regulators, and courts into wrong assumptions about privacy, resulting in ineffective legal remedies to one of the most pressing concerns of our generation. Drawing on behavioral science, sociology, and economics, Ignacio Cofone challenges existing laws and reform proposals and dispels enduring misconceptions about data-driven interactions. This exploration offers readers a holistic view of why current laws and regulations fail to protect us against corporate digital harms, particularly those created by AI. Cofone then proposes a better response: meaningful accountability for the consequences of corporate data practices, which ultimately entails creating a new type of liability that recognizes the value of privacy.

Ignacio Cofone is Canada Research Chair in Artificial Intelligence Law & Data Governance at McGill University's Faculty of Law. His research focuses on law reform for privacy and A.I., exploring how the law should adapt to technological and economic change. His current projects examine liability for privacy harm and A.I. discrimination.

More information about the NAIL project is available on our institutional website. Please subscribe to our mailing list(nail"AT"ile-hamburg.de) to receive notifications for future events.